A NEW fully illustrated history of Buckley and district will be launched at Buckley library on Saturday.

The 376-page book by T. W. Pritchard covers the area from early times to the 21st century and includes the communities of the townships of Argoed, Bistre, Ewloe Town, Ewloe Wood, Pentrobin and Bannel.

It traces the emergence of modem Buckley out of the medieval Lordships of Ewloe, Hawarden, and Mold to the time it assumed its identity as Buckley Urban District Council in 1897 and to the present day.